Vitamin B12
Feeling weak, tired or off balance? Have you ever thought your vitamin levels could be affecting your mental health? This reliable home health test measures the Vitamin B12 levels in your blood. This nutrient is essential for maintaining healthy cells and helps make your brain's neurotransmitters that control your mood, focus and energy levels. Get secure online results and a physician-reviewed test guide quickly after the lab receives your sample. Vitamin B12 is a water-soluble vitamin important for maintaining healthy nerve cells to prevent tingling and numbness in your body. Like folate, it helps make red blood cells and DNA. Vitamin B12 absorption is complex. Factors that can lead to the malabsorption of Vitamin B12 include aging, alterations in the digestive tract, auto immune processes, and drug-nutrient interactions. Vitamin B12 is found mostly in animal foods. Monitoring regularly is important for anyone limiting the consumption of these foods. Low levels are associated with depressed mood, nerve damage, mouth ulcers, cognitive impairment, disturbed vision, irritability, behaviour changes, and vitamin deficiency anaemia.
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